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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Blue and Purple postcards

I've got a stack of lovely mail art that needs answering, so I've been working on postcards today.

I decided to double up and make some postcards that would fit in with the colors of the day.
Of course now that I am ready to mail them off I regret not making larger pieces to keep with my other colors. Rather than having an incomplete rainbow I will probably end up making MORE blue and purple art to keep.

For now, here are my postcards.

I started the blue ones with various security envelopes... which makes me think of money...which led me to this old book of mathematical tables I found at the thrift store, and I found and ripped some pages about calculating compound interest.... which made me think of a terrific (if a bit dark and depressing) song by the National, Bloodbuzz Ohio, and it's repeating chorus of "I still owe money, to the money, to money I owe".... which just seems to sum up the sad state of so many Americans in this economy.

So after getting all dark and heavy on myself, I switched to another in my series of purple flower postcards. I had a hot mess of a painting a few months back that got cut into postcards. Bit by bit, I've been doctoring them and sending them out. I cut the flower petals out of painted book pages

14 comments:

Had to laugh when I read that you will probably make more postcards so that you'll have a complete rainbow. For Hanna's postcard swap each year I always make a few extra for myself because otherwise I would "miss" my creations! My fav is the purple flower with the bookish petals.